Empty nest series — 3— Anybody can cry!

All of us can cry, cringe, be spiteful, greedy, proud, angry, regretful, fearful, sad, anxious, bored, jealous, resentful, or fearful. Did I list all…. actually not! There are more which come up most of the time, and we may not be able to name them even. Or we actually don't know if they are valid or even can be named or just be welcomed. I was told I can't be most of the time, but have grown up to understand the hard way that these are most normal as joy, bliss, loved, or any of those other sets which are always seen as welcome.

I am trying to debunk the myth “Men cant cry”. Please do cry your heart out, it is a normal expression of valid emotions which as humans we experience. So there is no gender for the emotions to be expressed neither is there validation needed for any of them. I have learned to understand that what I feel is valid even if all in the world might think otherwise, but I did so in a very hard way. Maybe you would also learn this the same way. But that is what it is.

The only thing I realized is that if you shut them out, they would still come out maybe in a harsher way which some of us aren't equipped to handle. So let's handle it when we can, and take help always. There is no taboo in taking any kind of help which you think would work for u.